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I've done some reading up (thanks to Noonie and Nick for the links) and from what I've been reading, BlogEngine.net is the way to go. I've not run it yet to try it out, but there's a few things mkaing it look like the correct path to follow: It's open. This means I can hack my own changes in (coz there's no way i'm doing ANY captcha without ...

In the two years since I was last seriously blogging* community server has gone under a few changes - to the point that community server doesn't even seem to exist anymore. Telligent still has products, but they're not for me. Hell, I'd been holding off on upgrading to the latest version as it was. So this blog is, like, massively old. It still ...

I know. Surely I don't need help with CS, do I? Oh the shock, the horror, the humanity! Well, I'm sorry, but yes. Yes I do. Forgiveness can be earned, but screw that - I just need an answer to my question. I've been slow in the blogging world for a while (yeah yeah, we all know that), but I've also been behind on both my blog reading ...

I wanted to do a little change to some code I'd written for CS yesterday. For both the Gaptcha control and my in-line file uploader I'm uploading a file and saving somewhere within the current user's blog. I've been constructing the save locations (and hence the URL to the saved file) in a sorta roundabout way, relying on using the Weblog.Url ...

This post is my list of features/bugs/etc for the next version of Gaptcha. There's no guarantee that everything I mention in this list will make it to the next version, but this is my central point for listing any thoughts. This post will be updated as I think of more or tick things off. Update function for any Gaptcha image. Clean up the ...

Version 1.0 of the Gaptcha Control is now ready for public consumption (should anyone want it :) Download it here. Sadly, to add Gaptcha to your site it's not just a simple matter of just dropping an assembly in your bin folder - there's a few different patches to be made. The purpose of this article is to guide you through patching it into your ...

As I get around to taking a lot of different pictures of myself for the Gaptcha control, I've decided to also occasionally include photos of other members of my family. Now, while I can recognise and identify members of my family, I'm certainly not expecting everyone who reads this blog to be able to do it. So I thought I'd give a clearly labeled ...

Update: The source is now live!  I've now got timeouts working. Currently for this blog, the selected set of pictures you must click on to successfully submit a comment will expire 10 minutes after the page loads. This means that if you take a long time to write a comment, submission might still fail. But that's alright, because ...

While writing my Gaptcha control, I wrote a few drafts along the way of how it would work. It's funny the way things progress. I like to think I have a pretty good knowledge of HTML, DHTML, and the HTTP protocol (which when you've got the three covered pretty much covers the whole web right? - well, most of it...) But while I know all that, that ...

Update: The source is now live!  Tonight I made a couple of little mods to my Gaptcha control. First, I stopped just base64 encoding the names of the images that needed to be selected in the form. It was extremely easy to crack :) It now encrypts the information first, and THEN base64 encodes it. Second, I made it a little user-friendlier ...